IELTS Writing Task 1 | Popular Languages

IELTS Writing Task 1 | Popular Languages

IELTS Writing Task 1 | Popular Languages

Instructions:

Visual data adopted from https://www.ielts-exam.net/

The table above offers us some information about the most popular languages with the most native speakers. 

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main points. You could make comparisons when necessary.

LELB Student: Karim

The table indicates six favorite languages (mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, English and Arabic) spoken the most in the world as a native speakers and as an additional language speakers.

The Mandarin Chinese has the most number of native speakers (900 million speakers) while English has the most number of speakers as an additional language (603 million speakers) among these six languages.

The lowest use of language in both form (native and additional language speakers) belong to Portuguese (203 million and 10 million speakers respectively) so Portuguese has the lowest uses in sum of speakers.

English is only language that number of speakers as an additional language is more than number of native speakers. This shows us that English is the most favorite language that people tend to learn in the world.

After Mandarin Chinese, the Hindi has more uses as a native language (370 million speakers) and after English, the Mandarin Chinese has more uses as an additional language (190 million speakers). Number of native speakers for Spanish and English are 350 million and 339 million respectively. The most sum of speakers belong to Mandarin Chinese speakers (1.09 billion speakers) and English has second portion among these 6 languages (942 million speakers).

Examiner’s Notes:

• Paragraph 1:
  • You did not mention Portuguese among the 6 languages.
  • “Mandarin” should be capitalized.
  • Favorite languages :arrow: popular languages
  • Line 1-2: … with the highest number of native and non-native speakers
• Paragraph 2:
  • Line 1: It’s better to say :arrow: the highest number of
  • 900 million (consider a space)
• Paragraph 3:
  • Line 1: form :arrow: forms
  • The lowest number of language speakers
  • Belong :arrow: belongs (in response to “the number of”)
  • Line 2: … has the lowest number of language speakers, overall.
• Paragraph 4:
  • Line 1: English is the only language whose non-native speakers outnumber its native speakers.
• Paragraph 5:
  • Line 1: … has the most native speakers
  • Line 2: the numbers of native speakers
  • Line 3: … and English fills / holds the second position
• Visual Data Analysis:
  • In IELTS Writing Task 1, you should not summarize all the pictorial data. Instead, you need to specify the most significant visual data.
  • The whole report is composed of short paragraphs. Your report had better consist of 3 main paragraphs.
  • You could say: The number of English non-native speakers is roughly twice more than its native speakers, which has placed this international language in the second position among the most popular languages right below Mandarin Chinese. On the contrary, the number of Portuguese non-native speakers is notoriously 5% of the entire population of its native speakers, indicating that foreigners are not inclined to learn this language.
• Choice of Words (Diction): You need to use more academic words.
• Coherence: Not coherent enough!
• Cohesion: Your summary sounds like some short paragraphs in a disintegrated fashion. Hence, it lacks adequate cohesion. Besides, you need to use more conjunctions.
• Grammar: Understandable, yet you should work on your grammar.
• Reasoning: Good
• Word Count: “200” Great!